blackbox, bbkeys, and .xinit...

[Eric Kjeldergaard]

On Tue, 2 Nov 2004 18:55:51 -0500, Mike Hauber <m.hauber at mchsi.com> wrote:
> Greets,
> 
> This is something I haven't had to mess with before, and I'm
> confused by the docs...
> 
> I have several WMs installed on my FreeBSD (4.10) desktop,
> one of which is blackbox.  Is there a way to uniquely state
> that if blackbox loads, then bbkeys should load as well?
> 
> The instructions say to add the command to my ~/.xinit file,
> but if I do that, then bbkeys will load with whatever I
> start (If I understood it correctly.  Like I said, I've not
> had to do this before).
> 
> Oh yeah...  I'm running KDM from /etc/ttys at startup (if
> that matters).
> 

Well, you could do the following (which is dirty, but popped into my head)

if (ps | grep blackbox | grep -v grep > /dev/null); then bbkeys; fi

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